Politics aside, no matter how you swing in the debate over \u201cThe Wall\u201d and the government shutdown, if you are a sailor and a cruiser, then you will be concerned about the status of the U.S. Coast Guard on which we all depend for safety, rescues at sea and so many other vital services to mariners. The Coast Guard falls in the Department of homeland Security so it was ostensibly defunded as of December 21, 2018.<\/p>\n
It is reported that through some back-channel maneuvering, the coasties, many of whom are paid at near poverty-level wages plus allowances, received a paycheck at the end of December. That\u2019s a good thing. What happens this week, when they all are due for their first paycheck of 2019 is still, as of Wednesday, an open question. \u00a0Yet, the men and women of the service are out there doing their jobs as professionally and bravely as ever.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 The Miami Herald<\/em> reports that a bipartisan group in Congress has put forward a bill called the \u201cPay Our Coast Guard Act\u201d that would end run the shutdown and provide the funds needed to keep the coasties paid and solvent. While the political debate over border security goes forward, it makes sense to support those who serve in vital safety services, who are not part of the politics, by keeping them paid as they bravely do their duty to the country. After all, in addition to being first responders for all mariners, \u00a0they are a first line of defense along our borders and leaders in drug interdiction, both key concerns in \u201cThe Wall\u201d debate. \u00a0Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Politics aside, no matter how you swing in the debate over \u201cThe Wall\u201d and the government shutdown, if you are a sailor and a cruiser, then you will be concerned about the status of the U.S. Coast Guard on which we all depend for safety, rescues at sea and so many other vital services to mariners. The Coast Guard falls in the Department of homeland Security so it was ostensibly defunded as of December 21, 2018. It is reported that through some back-channel maneuvering, the coasties, many of whom are paid at near poverty-level wages plus allowances, received a paycheck at the end of December. That\u2019s a good thing. What happens this week, when they all are due for their first paycheck of 2019 is still, as of Wednesday, an open question. \u00a0Yet, the men and women of the service are out there doing their jobs as professionally and bravely as ever. \u00a0 \u00a0 The Miami Herald reports that a bipartisan group in Congress has put forward a bill called the \u201cPay Our Coast Guard Act\u201d that would end run the shutdown and provide the funds needed to keep the coasties paid and solvent. While the political debate over border …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32234,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231\/revisions\/32234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}